CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
NPR January 3, 2010
The 1970s saw changes great and small in American society. More women began to move into the workforce and began to define themselves as more than wives, mothers or girlfriends. While men grew their hair and wore flowered shirts, children were listening to Marlo Thomas singing "Free to Be... You and Me."Gender roles were changing. It was OK for Mom to be a doctor and Dad to be a nurse. It was also increasingly OK to leave behind the confines of marriage. The divorce rate, which had begun to climb in the 1960s, soared in the 1970s, as states began to adopt no-fault divorce laws. But what did the 1970s divorce boom mean for the kids? Producer Sasha Aslanian spent five years working on a documentary about the children of divorce...
Humankind has been struggling with the divorce issue since recorded history. True, if two adults cannot live happily together, then expectations have failed and divorce is inevitable. But, as Sasha Aslanian points out, the kids are often caught in the crunch of mutual bickering. Both the court system and society have improved in how they view and help divorce kids--victims of someone else's problem; the kids themselves learn coping skills which, at some point, lead to a happy ending. All said, however, divorce should not be taken lightly. Just because we can manage the mess of a broken glass, doesn't mean that we should carelessly toss it to pieces. What can we do to reduce the chances of a sweet union turning sour?
You know the answer. If both spouses are Self-builders then divorce becomes more and more unlikely as the family increases beyond two. If you are married and your marraige is in trouble, then read The Provocative Qur'an to test this assertion. Come and attend my next workshop to find the secret of happy unions!
The 1970s saw changes great and small in American society. More women began to move into the workforce and began to define themselves as more than wives, mothers or girlfriends. While men grew their hair and wore flowered shirts, children were listening to Marlo Thomas singing "Free to Be... You and Me."Gender roles were changing. It was OK for Mom to be a doctor and Dad to be a nurse. It was also increasingly OK to leave behind the confines of marriage. The divorce rate, which had begun to climb in the 1960s, soared in the 1970s, as states began to adopt no-fault divorce laws. But what did the 1970s divorce boom mean for the kids? Producer Sasha Aslanian spent five years working on a documentary about the children of divorce...
Humankind has been struggling with the divorce issue since recorded history. True, if two adults cannot live happily together, then expectations have failed and divorce is inevitable. But, as Sasha Aslanian points out, the kids are often caught in the crunch of mutual bickering. Both the court system and society have improved in how they view and help divorce kids--victims of someone else's problem; the kids themselves learn coping skills which, at some point, lead to a happy ending. All said, however, divorce should not be taken lightly. Just because we can manage the mess of a broken glass, doesn't mean that we should carelessly toss it to pieces. What can we do to reduce the chances of a sweet union turning sour?
You know the answer. If both spouses are Self-builders then divorce becomes more and more unlikely as the family increases beyond two. If you are married and your marraige is in trouble, then read The Provocative Qur'an to test this assertion. Come and attend my next workshop to find the secret of happy unions!
Posted by Farooq Husayn at 1/2/2010 4:58 PM 
Categories: Quran, divorce, Selfbuilding
Tags: divorce children Quran Sasha Aslanian Koran
Categories: Quran, divorce, Selfbuilding
Tags: divorce children Quran Sasha Aslanian Koran
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